It’s less than a week to go until the orchestra’s next concert. Entitled ‘Home Grown’ it has the theme of Music by British composers and will be in aid of the Lord Mayor’s annual appeal.
Advance tickets, priced £10 for adults (accompanied children free) for the concert on Sunday November 30 (3pm) at the Church of the Resurrection, Drayton are on sale here.
The featured composers are George Handel, with his Music for the Royal Fireworks, Richard Rodney Bennett (Farnham Festival Overture), Ernest Tomlinson (Suite of English Folk Dances) and Benjamin Britten’s Matinees and Soirees Musicales using music by Rossini.
The orchestra will also be performing a piece by a female composer for the first time, featuring Doreen Carwithen’s Suffolk Suite.
The orchestra is supported by Bishops Printers and since it was founded in 2009 it as raised well over £25,000 for good causes in the Portsmouth area.